6.5.1
Table Of Contents
- vSphere Availability
- Contents
- About vSphere Availability
- Business Continuity and Minimizing Downtime
- Creating and Using vSphere HA Clusters
- Providing Fault Tolerance for Virtual Machines
- vCenter High Availability
- Plan the vCenter HA Deployment
- Configure the Network
- Configure vCenter HA With the Basic Option
- Configure vCenter HA With the Advanced Option
- Manage the vCenter HA Configuration
- Set Up SNMP Traps
- Set Up Your Environment to Use Custom Certificates
- Manage vCenter HA SSH Keys
- Initiate a vCenter HA Failover
- Edit the vCenter HA Cluster Configuration
- Perform Backup and Restore Operations
- Remove a vCenter HA Configuration
- Reboot All vCenter HA Nodes
- Change the Appliance Environment
- Collecting Support Bundles for a vCenter HA Node
- Troubleshoot Your vCenter HA Environment
- Patching a vCenter High Availability Environment
- Using Microsoft Clustering Service for vCenter Server on Windows High Availability
- Index
3 Log in to the vCenter Server Appliance that will initially become the Active node, directly.
Interface Action
vCenter Server Appliance
Go to hps://appliance-IP-address-or-FQDN:5480
vSphere Web Client
a Go to hps://appliance-IP-address-or-FQDN/vsphere-client
b Select Administration > System
4 Congure the IP seings for the second network adapter.
Start the Advanced Configuration Process
After you congure the network and you add a second NIC to the vCenter Server Appliance, you can start
the vCenter HA conguration process.
Prerequisites
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Deploy vCenter Server Appliance that you want to use as initial Active node.
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The vCenter Server Appliance must have a static IP address mapped to an FQDN.
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SSH must be enabled on the vCenter Server Appliance.
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Congure the network. See “Congure the Network,” on page 63.
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Determine which static IP addresses to use for the two vCenter Server Appliance nodes that will
become the Passive node and Witness node.
Procedure
1 Log in to the Active node with the vSphere Web Client.
2 Right-click the vCenter Server object in the inventory and select vCenter HA .
3 Click .
4 Select the Advanced conguration option and click Next.
5 Provide the IP address and subnet mask for the Passive and Witness nodes click Next.
You have to specify these IP addresses now even though the nodes do not exist yet. You can no longer
change these IP addresses after you click Next.
6 (Optional) Click Advanced if you want to override the failover management IP address for the Passive
node.
7 Leave the wizard window open and perform the cloning tasks.
What to do next
“Create and Congure the Clones of the Active Node,” on page 66.
Create and Configure the Clones of the Active Node
As part of the Advanced conguration, you have to clone the Active node to create the Passive and Witness
nodes. Do not exit the Congure vCenter HA wizard while you perform the cloning tasks.
Procedure
1 Log in to the management vCenter Server, right-click the vCenter Server Appliance virtual machine
(Active node), and select Clone > Clone to Virtual Machine.
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